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Friday, September 16, 2022

Dennis Wesselbaum: Uncoordinated monetary and fiscal policy during Covid-19


The monetary and fiscal policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic set the stage for the inflation we are currently experiencing.

In the debate about what drives inflation and who is to blame, one important element has not received the attention it deserves: the coordination between monetary and fiscal policy.

Since Eric Leeper’s work in the early 90’s, we know that the combination between active (forward-looking) and passive (backward-looking) fiscal and monetary policy matters for the price level and inflation.